West Germany: A Many-Titled Tycoon

As a World War II prisoner held near
Concordia, Kans., German Afrika Korps Lieut. Reinhard Mohn developed a
command of English and an affection for American ways. Mohn returned to
Germany and took over his family's small 111-year-old C. C. Bertelsmann
publishing company, read all that he could find about U.S. management
ideasand made the firm the colossus of the West German book business,
ten times larger than its nearest competitors. Lately he has made
himself West Germany's movie king as well. He has bought the famed but
financially troubled Ufa studio,...